The Beauty Appears (left) and White Flag for a Nude (right) by Servando Cabrera Moreno

Servando Cabrera Moreno (1923-1981), A Havana-born painter, has a selection of erotic works being shown at Cernunda Arte in Coral Gables, titled Ten Erotic Works by Servando Cabrera Moreno. An opening reception will be held Friday August, 5 from 7 to 10 p.m., 3155 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, Fl. Cabrera Moreno died in 1981 is considered one of the greatest of Cuba’s painters (and great Cuban painters make is no small list).

The paintings are a cross section of the artist’s main work revolving around erotic and homoerotic work. These paintings come from the 60s and 70s. The paintings are of male and female nudes, sometimes sans heads. The works seem almost anonymous and yet carnal.

A group of other works by modern and contemporary artists will be showing at the same time. Below is a work by one of those artists, another Cuban master, Wilfredo Lam. Cernuda sold another of Lam’s paintings on the first day of last years Art Basel Miami for over three million dollars.